Which is pretty funny: Krugman's blog
Cultural ignorance
Sometimes I despair. As I was driving over to my parents’, I heard a radio ad for some kind of housing development offering “your choice of exterior finish — brick, stone, or stucco.” Clearly, whoever wrote the copy for that ad has no knowledge of the classics (which seem especially relevant right now):
Groucho : You can have any kind of a home you want. You can even get stucco. Oh, how you can get stucco.
